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by sumeno 2y ago
The reason is pretty much irrelevant, either engagement on Twitter is artificially lower because of algorithm shenanigans, or because it's becoming a ghost town of abandoned accounts and spam bots. Neither option is a compelling reason
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by sumeno 2y ago
Subscriptions for additional features. You can read their general plan at https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-business-plan
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by sumeno 2y ago
The backbone is a minority of the bones in the body too, but without it you're screwed. My previous job was at one of the largest investment companies in the world, if the COBOL went away the company would collapse.
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by sumeno 2y ago
This may be technically true on a long enough timeline, but COBOL is still the backbone of the financial sector even though companies have dumped millions into attempting to convert it to something new with limited success.
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by sumeno 2y ago
Then the user should be able to post exactly what they posted to get banned without fear
516.
by sumeno 2y ago
And what did you do to get banned? Be specific
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by sumeno 2y ago
Maybe the guy who helped launch the two manmade objects furthest from earth knows more about how to build space probes than you
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by sumeno 2y ago
If they aren't profitable when taking into account their negative externalities than the owners are stealing from the rest of the world and they should go bankrupt. They'd probably figure out a better way to do business instead
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by sumeno 2y ago
Even if true, which I'm skeptical of, social media sites don't have to be permanent. It's no different from any other service being enshittified, just use it until it sucks and then stop.
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by sumeno 2y ago
This, it happens for a while after every big exodus moment and chills out after.
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by sumeno 2y ago
Because people don't care about decentralization, they care about vibes and the vibes of Nostr are "right wing grifters and crypto scammers"
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by sumeno 2y ago
Brazil banned twitter
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by sumeno 2y ago
Everything about this headline is horrifying
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by sumeno 2y ago
What's it like having never heard a republican talk about public healthcare?
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by sumeno 2y ago
If most people choose full time remote if given the option then it's pretty selfish to demand they all go to the office because you prefer it.
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by sumeno 2y ago
Nice slippery slope you've got there
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by sumeno 2y ago
It's not reasonable to assume that users in the US have names that only use 7-bit ASCII
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by sumeno 2y ago
"Here's what an LLM thinks about this" is not useful commentary, it's just white noise
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by sumeno 2y ago
You can't post content critical of some HN darlings without being flagged by their fans
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by sumeno 2y ago
I remember when the iPhone first came out non-tech friends had recurring nightmares about forgetting to take their phone out of their pocket before swimming. Phones being waterproof is a huge QOL improvement
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by sumeno 2y ago
Gonna need a citation on this one. Not mental health issues increasing, but online communities being the cause
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by sumeno 2y ago
People said the same thing about crypto right before it crashed. People say lots of things, it doesn't make them any more likely to be true.
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by sumeno 2y ago
They would absolutely show data that shows productivity was down during the pandemic years of full remote if they had it. It's several years in the past at this point and everyone in the world had an excuse, but studies show that produ
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by sumeno 2y ago
If that was the case these execs would be sharing the data so it was harder to argue against. They will share any data that backs up their decision and when they don't share any data you can know it's because they don't have
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by sumeno 2y ago
Pay me Bill Gates money and I'll work from the office 5 days a week and not complain
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by sumeno 2y ago
I was not referencing Arrested Development. Dozens is a term that was used to describe groups of people well before AD and the context here doesn't fit the meme at all. I am not skeptical at all that you know three people who got sick
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by sumeno 2y ago
I know dozens who have come back completely healthy
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by sumeno 2y ago
He was greatly exaggerating or has an incredibly sensitive nose
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by sumeno 2y ago
> Why did only Kahle do it, and why was it only Kahle coming up with CDL as an idea to prevent the death of first sale, of lending a book, of the idea of a free library in a digital future? Lots of libraries do free digital lending of eb
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by sumeno 2y ago
I have never seen any nudity on bsky and I've been using it for more than a year

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